Depending on how you like your nonfiction in first-person interviews or personal revelations, sweeping histories or brief insights these new works, all by Bay Area authors, run the gamut. Beginning with Clair Brown on economics, they include a collection of interviews with Haiti's earthquake victims, Jason Turbow's history of the Oakland A's heyday; a memoir by novelist Yiyun Li and a study of Catholics in early America by the late Kevin Starr.
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An article published in the Feb. 28 Local section about state Sen. Nancy Skinner's proposed legislation to place new conditions on the closure of not-for-profit hospitals incorrectly reported when Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley plans to close.
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Keynote speaker Paul Buddenhagen, director of the city's Health, Housing and Community Services Department and the son of an Ethiopian immigrant mother and a white American father, will join a panel of mixed race youth to explore "the 64,000-dollar question that a lot of mixed race people are asked: 'What Are You?'" BERKELEY - "Mixed Race: Which Box do I check?" is the subject of a forum from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. March 11 at the Berkeley High School Library, 1980 Allston Way. The keynote speaker will be Paul Buddenhagen, director of the city's Health, Housing and Community Services Department.
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The branch, at 2033 Shattuck Ave. between University Avenue and Addison Street, was all but destroyed in November 2015 after a fire at the restaurant next door, Mandarin Garden. Other neighboring business incurred damage as well.
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When it comes to including female musicians in high profile concert series there's hardly an organization in the Bay Area that couldn't do a better job. But a few venues and presenters make a point of showcasing the region's wealth of women artists, and in March, women's history month, Berkeley is ground zero for an extraordinary deluge of concerts focusing on female singers, players, poets and dancers who have made profound contributions.
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Students hold a demonstration against sexual harassment outside Wurster Hall on the campus of UC Berkeley in November 2016. About 60 students blocked a pathway at the school to demand the suspension of a professor found by the campus to have sexually harassed a student.
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Clarinet virtuoso Ismail Lumanovski has already broken new ground several times in his short career. Best known as the driving force behind the New York Gypsy All Stars, he's the first Roma reed player to graduate from Juilliard.
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Transbay commuters now have another option, with the launch of ferry service from the Berkeley Marina to San Francisco's Embarcadero Center. Master deck hand Matthew Cosby checks a line as the Heron, Tideland Marine Group's 52 foot Chesapeake yacht, speeds through the San Francisco Bay in San Francisco, Calif., on Wednesday, Sept.
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North Berkeley is gearing up for another community-friendly event, the fourth annual Gourmet Ghetto Wine Walk on March 9. It promises to be an enjoyable evening of strolling into businesses for small bites and local production wines, along with some craft beers. Doors will be open at some 20 locations along Shattuck Avenue and Vine Street, inviting participants to sample special tastings of chocolates, nuts, olive oil and olives, soups, cheeses, pizza, local honey and other sweet and savory treats.
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"The 1940 US Census gives Berkeley an 'all Japanese' population of 1,319 and Albany 12. Of these, 859 are American born a of the 460 Japanese nationals here 235 are male and 225 females." The March 6, 1942 Gazette carried this picture of the new UC cyclotron under construction, but noted planned research there "has become a military secret."
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Bay Are politicians unveiled a new plan aimed at stopping a wave of hospital closures in California, including Berkeley's Alta Bates Hospital, slated for closure as early as 2020, by giving the Attorney General the authority to review the impact of the decision before allowing it to move forward. The legislation, authored by Senator Nancy Skinner focuses on not for profit hospitals, such as Kaiser, Alta Bates and Summit.
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Affordable, high-quality healthcare is a fundamental human right, according to Congresswoman Lee, who was trained as a psychiatric social worker, and she wants to make sure that everyone, especially the most vulnerable, has access to it. Rep.Barbara Lee spoke at a town hall meeting at the Ed Roberts Campus in Berkeley, Calif., on Jan. 17, 2015.
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During more than a quarter century on the Pleasant Hill City Council, Terri Williamson was an outspoken and passionate advocate of curbing development and preserving the city's small-town character. "She really cared about Pleasant Hill and she really cared about the people who lived here," said Kim Brandt, who served on the council with Williamson in the 1990s.
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Prosecutors on Thursday filed attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon charges against a 20-year-old man accused of stabbing a woman who works at a Berkeley private school on Tuesday. Angel Juarez will be arraigned in an Oakland courtroom on Thursday afternoon.
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